The Heights over Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, the William Corey Heading Seawards, Laying the Shore-end of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, July 7th, 1866, 1865–66, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 10 3/8 × 15 3/8 in. (26.3 × 39.1 cm), Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826–1909), One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than ten or twelve days by steamer
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Heights, Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, William Corey Heading Seawards, Laying, Shore, Atlantic Telegraph Cable, July 7th, 1866, 1865–66, Watercolor, graphite, touches, gouache, Sheet, 10 3/8, 15, 26.3, 39.1 cm, Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley, British, 1826–1909, 19th century, great technological achievements, lay, telegraphic cable, beneath, Atlantic, allowing messages, speed back, forth, North America, Europe, minutes, ten, twelve days, steamer
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